The Trek oil painting

For many refugees the long road begins in Eritrea.
They leave their homes.
Out of sheer fear.
And they dream of a better life.
For their children.
On my picture I accompany as a painter in thought a mom, a dad, and the little child.
The child carries his few things themselves.
It's about people.
And it's about humanity.
These people have nothing.
Besides the courage to begin a new life.

Let's talk.
Let us listen to all opinions.
Even negative opinions.
Also fears and worries.
Let us understand the issue.
I Paint Therefore

The great train oil painting

Thousands crowded into the train.
To Europe.
We are discussing refugees.
We must ask ourselves: Why do they exist? Have we the countries exploited? Destabilisert? Have we done enough? Let us listen to them?

Lampedusa oil painting

Whoever hears Lampedusa inevitably thinks of refugees.
But what's happening a bit further out on the open sea for years now is unbelievable! Traffickers petting migrants on tight boats.
Death goes along.
The fact that people go overboard and drown cruelly in the eyes of others is incredibly terrible.
Out of anger and incomprehension, I brought this theme to screen already in 2011.
At that time hardly anyone was interested in Lampedusa.
Well, how is it today? On my oil painting I arrest a terrible scene.
A child is drowning.
It struggles to survive in the headlights of a helicopter.
Nobody comes to his aid.

All of Europe looks away and closes its eyes to this problem.
It's a story that can not be put into words.
It starts with the question of why we do not help the pe... ...